Up Close with the iPlay, the Apple Gaming Console That Doesn’t Exist

Today, game website IGN showed the launch trailer for the iPlay. It’s poised as Apple’s effort at video game hardware. And it’s totally made up. That’s right! Check your calendars, folks. It’s April 1. Then admire this iPlay console mock up, and IGN’s tongue-in-cheek trailer. You can watch it in the link below. iPlay [IGN]

Xbox Live, Live In China…Sort Of

Last Friday, reports showed up that Xbox Live in China was giving out digital copies of Assassins Creed III. A few hours after that, images of other games had begun showing up on the website, games with domestic pricing. It seems that Xbox Live is now live in China. Late last year in August, it…

In This Japanese Love Hotel, There’s an Effing DDR Arcade Machine

“Love hotels” are Japan’s equivalent of the “no-tell motel”. Rooms are available by the hour, and the hotels cater to people having sex, whether that’s renting costumes, selling sex toys, or streaming adult videos. But, wait! Some people have more varied interests. They like to sing karaoke and play video games. Well, love hotels often…

Rumor: Reports In China Say Two More Foxconn Workers Jumped

Foxconn, the manufacturing arm of the Taiwanese Hon Hai Precision Industrial Co is once again caught in the center of media attention in China. Over the weekend reports appeared saying that two workers had jumped off a building at Foxconn’s Shenzhen plant. On the Friday morning the 29, photos and posts appeared on China’s twitter…

Nintendo Is Rolling Out a New AR App for Japan

Later this month, Nintendo will start selling pre-paid cards for downloadable 3DS games that come with AR cards for Issho ni Photo: Super Mario (“Photos Together with Super Mario”). It’s a new 3DS app that uses the AR cards to allow you to take snaps of and with the Mario characters. The first set, on…

The Hardest Where’s Waldo Imaginable

Okay, I’ll admit it. I haven’t found Waldo (née “Wally”) in this image. So, he might not even be in the above GIF. That shouldn’t stop you from searching. And if you do, have a look at the slightly sharper version of the above GIF down below. The animated image recently appeared on 2ch, Japan’s…

As of today, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Sony Computer Entertainment Asia are now a single unit, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia. This seems to streamline and expand PlayStation operations. [SCEI]

April Fool’s Day in Japan Brings Us a Truly Wonderful Pizza Product. Shame It’s Fake.

April Fool’s Day is definitely a thing in Japan. And here is a round-up of some, certainly not all, of the country’s internet pranks. Many of them are either game or geek related things, but not all of them. And at least one of them should be real. April Fool’s Day or not, I so…

I Would Play Mortal Komrades. I Would Also Play Deers Of War.

Brent Engstrom, an artist who has worked on the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, recently tried his hand at making some video game box art. Not real box art, though. Weird, fake games that, thanks to their names and art, I suddenly want to play. Badly. Especially Deers of War. It’s like all those poor…

When Readers Try To Redesign Kotaku. Again.

Despite the fact we just got a redesign, courtesy of our network paymasters at Gawker HQ, reader Tom Schwanke has ideas of his own as to how this website should look. We may never actually get to use them, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the effort! Tom’s looked at everything from our logo…

Tiny Nintendo Consoles Made Out Of LEGO

Flickr user CK Tsang has, with great patience and attention to detail, rebuilt Nintendo’s first two serious home consoles – the Japanese Famicom and Western NES – into teeny tiny LEGO models. Where his designs shine is the detail. Rather than just create the boxes, he’s made tiny control pads, tiny cartridges that slide into…

Learning to use a new TV is hard. So many settings. Why,this great story argues, can’t they gradually introduce features like a video game does?

April Fool’s Day Is Especially Cruel To Batman (And Adventure Time Fans)

Continuing a long and proud tradition of producing some of the only April Fool’s Day content worth a chuckle, online retailer Thinkgeek has revealed three bogus items that aren’t really for sale. What makes them interesting, though, is that sometimes these gags do end up as real products. So giggle if you must now, but…

Mass Effect, GI Joe & Half-Life 2 Lead The Cosplay Charge This Week

Now that I’m back from vacation, our weekly roundup of the best cosplay from around the world may resume. And what a week to bring things back online. Some of these shots are from conventions, others are not, while one has Gordon Freeman posing in his (well, her) hallway at home. To see larger images…

This is a new TV commercial for Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us. I share it here mostly because of the soundtrack. Whoever decided on moody acoustic guitar over pop songs or dubstep, I salute you.

Thief 4 Concept Art Is, Yes, Very Dark

Back in 2011, Idid an illustrative feature on Nicolas Ferrand, a concept artist at Eidos Montreal. At the time, I said he was working on Thief 4, but wasn’t allowed to show any of his stuff for that project. Now, two years later, he can. While it’s only three images, they’re more than enough to…

Far Cry 3 Expansion Suggests The Game Has Jumped The Shark In The Most Amazing Way Possible

Above is apparently the “box art” for Blood Dragon, an upcoming (and seemingly downloadable) expansion for Far Cry 3. Take a good look at it. It’s as amazing as it appears unlikely, especially given our proximity to April 1, but considering the title has been rated by both the Australianand Brazilian classification boards (it has…

Microsoft Blog Says Battlefield 4 Will Be Out On October 29

When Battlefield 4 was officially unveiled last week, the only release timeframe given was “Fall”. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 blog is being a lot more specific. It says that “Battlefield 4 will arrive on the Xbox 360 on October 29, 2013″, which while far from a guarantee – there’s a lot of time between now and…

Game Of F**ks Is All The Swearing From Game Of Thrones, Together In One Video [NSFW]

Just in time for the beginning of season three tonight, here’s your highbrow Sunday evening content: a supercut of every nasty curse word whispered, spoken and screamed in the first two seasons of Game of Thrones. There’s a certain poetry to it, all seen together like this. Makes you really miss ol’ Robert. And also…

This Fully-Playable 16-Bit Wonderland is Guild Wars 2‘s Idea of a Joke

Originally planned as a fake 8-bit update to celebrate April Fools’ Day, Super Adventure Box grew into an expansive three-level homage to the golden age of gaming available to Guild Wars 2 players the length of April, because ArenaNet. Where other developers might have stopped at mocking up a few screens or maybe filming an…